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HEADQUARTERS 

105  EAST  TWENTY- SECOND  STREET,  NEW  YORK 


he  Hug uenot-Wal loon 
New  Netherland  Commission, 

(Instituted  by  tbe  Federal  Council  of 
tbe  Cburcbes  of  Christ  in  America) ,  for  the 
Celebration  of  the  300th  Anniversary  of  the  Set¬ 
tling  m  New  Netherland  of  Walloons  (French 
an  d  Belg  lan  Huguenots)  hy  the  Dutch  West 
India  Company,  in  1624, 


1624-1924 


invites  your  co-operation  in  the  Tercentenary 
Celebration,  and  desires  to  call  your  considerate 
attention  to  its  aims  and  plans,  outlined  in  the  fol¬ 
lowing  pages. 


OFFICERS  AND  COMMITTEES 


Honorary  Chairmen 

The  President  of  the  United  States 

H.  M.  The  Queen  of  the  Netherlands 
H.  M.  The  King  of  the  Belgians 
His  Excellency,  the  President  of  the 
French  Republic 


Honorary  Vice-Chairmen 

Baron  de  Cartier  de  Marchienne  Hon.  A.  D.  C.  de  Graeff 
Hon.  Jules  J.  Jusserand  Hon.  William  Phillips 


A  dvisory  Commillee 

Prof.  A.  J.  Barnouw  Hon.  Gaston  Liebert 

Hon.  T.  Coleman  du  Pont  Hon.  Pierre  Mali 

Hamilton  Holt  J.  Perret 

Hon.  J.  B.  Hubrecht  Hon.  Gifford  Pinchot 

Rev.  Henry  Van  Dyke 


‘  Officers 

Robert  W.  de  Forest 
Chairman  General  Commission 


Rev.  Charles  S.  Macfarland 
Chairman  Executive  Committee 

Vice-Chairmen 


Rt.  Rev.  James  H.  Darlington  Hon.  William  J.  Schieffelin 

Hon.  T.  W.  Bacot  Dr.  Robert  E.  Speer 

John  L.  Merrill  William  Sloane  Coffin 

Col.  W.  Gaspard  de  Coligny  Rev.  Charles  S.  Macfarland 

Hon.  J.  S.  Frelinghuysen 


Executive 

Tunis  G.  Bergen 
Rev.  W.  I.  Chamberlain 
Louis  E.  de  Forest 
Dr.  John  H.  Finley 
Rev.  James  H.  Franklin 
Rev.  Sidney  L.  Gulick 
Rev.  William  I.  Haven 

Rev.  Jame 


Committee 

C.  V.  Hibbard 
Dr.  George  F.  Kunz 
Col.  George  P.  Lawton 
Miss  Sarah  Lyon 
Dr.  John  R.  Mott 
Rev.  Frank  Mason  North 
Rev.  George  W.  Richards 
3  I.  Vance 


Alfred  R.  Kimball 
Treasurer 

Rev.  John  Baer  Stoudt 
Director 

Miss  Antonia  H.  Froendt 
Secretary 


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MEMBERS 


Mrs.  Anson  Atterbury 

Hon.  T.  W.  Bacot 

Dr.  George  Fales  Baker 

Rev.  Allen  R.  Bartholomew 

Rev.  Sylvester  W.  Beach 

Henry  Harper  Benedict 

Tunis  G.  Bergen 

Fred  T.  Bontecou 

Dr.  Herbert  L.  Bridgman 

W.  R.  Britton 

Charles  Newton  Candee 

Rev.  Samuel  McCrea  Cavert 

Rev.  W.  I.  Chamberlain 

Rev.  Samuel  H.  Chester 

Rev.  Francis  E.  Clark 

Hon.  Alphonso  Clearwater 

William  Sloane  Coffin 

Mrs.  James  C.  Colgate 

Col.  W.  Gaspard  de  Coligny 

Charles  E.  Corwin 

R.  Fulton  Cutting 

Rt.  Rev.  James  H.  Darlington 

Louis  Effingham  de  Forest 

Robert  W.  de  Forest 

Pres.  W.  H.  S.  Demarest 

Edward  DeWitt 

Dr.  Howard  Duffield 

Hon.  T.  Coleman  Du  Pont 

Mrs.  Wright  P.  Edgerton 

Dr.  Samuel  A.  Eliot 

Rev.  Paul  D.  Elsesser 

Hon.  Edward  R.  Finch 

Dr.  John  H.  Finley 

Lucian  J.  Fosdick 

Mrs.  Lucian  J.  Fosdick 

Rev.  William  H.  Foulkes 

Rev.  James  H.  Franklin 

Alden  Freeman 

Hon.  J.  S.  Frelinghuysen 

Algernon  S.  Frissell 

Miss  Antonia  H.  Froendt 

Hon.  Fred  B.  Gerned 

C.  M.  Goethe 

Rev.  James  I.  Good 

Rev.  William  Elliott  Griffis 

Rev.  Sidney  L.  Gulick 

Rev.  William  I.  Haven 

C.  V.  Hibbard 

Hamilton  Holt 

Hon.  J.  B.  Hubrecht 


A.  E.  Hungerford 

Rev.  James  Boyd  Hunter 

Phoenix  Ingraham 

Alfred  R.  Kimball 

Cornelius  G.  Kolff 

Dr.  George  F.  Kunz 

Col.  George  P.  Lawton 

Mrs.  George  P.  Lawton 

Rev.  Frederick  Lynch 

Miss  Sarah  Lyon 

Reginald  L.  McAll 

Rev.  Charles  S.  Macfarland 

Mrs.  Mary  P.  Macfarland 

Rev.  Th.  D.  Malan 

Hon.  Pierre  Mali 

Reuben  Leslie  Maynard 

Rev.  H.  G.  Mendenhall 

John  Leonard  Merrill 

Rev.  George  R.  Montgomery 

Thomas  L.  Montgomery 

Rev.  John  M.  Moore 

Dr.  John  R.  Mott 

Joseph  A.  Nash 

Mrs.  H.  S.  Prentiss  Nichols 

Rev.  Frank  Mason  North 

Capt.  N.  Taylor  Phillips 

Hon.  Gifford  Pinchot 

Rev.  W.  W.  Pinson 

Miss  Ruth  Putnam 

Daniel  Ravenel 

Hon.  David  A.  Reed 

Rev.  George  W.  Richards 

Joseph  D.  Sawyer 

Hon.  William  J.  Schieffelin 

Mrs.  Louis  Livingston  Seaman 

Prof.  Caroline  Sheldon 

Col.  Henry  W.  Shoemaker 

Rev.  Frank  G.  Smith 

Dr.  Robert  E.  Speer 

Rev.  John  Baer  Stoudt 

Fennell  P.  Turner 

Rev.  James  I.  Vance 

Rev.  Henry  Van  Dyke 

Rev.  Tertius  Van  Dyke 

Baron  L.  Wittert  van  Hoogland 

Mrs.  J.  King  Van  Rensselaer 

Miss  Kathlyn  K.  Viele 

Col.  John  W.  Vrooman 

Rev.  Florian  Vurpillot 

Rev.  George  S.  Webster 


[3] 


VERY  American  knows  the  story  of  the  Pil¬ 
grims,  who  began  the  settlement  of  our  six 
Eastern  States  in  1620. 

In  1624,  Walloons,  in  about  the  same 
number  as  the  Pilgrims,  sailed  in  the  new  ship  “New 
Netherland"  under  the  Dutch  West  India  Company. 
They  had  been  neighbors  of  the  Pilgrims  in  Leyden, 
and  were  “pilgrims"  too.  They  began  the  settlement 
of  the  Middle  States.  The  story  of  the  Walloons,  like 
that  of  the  Pilgrims,  is  wonderful  and  romantic,  and 
all  Americans  should  know  it.  Their  settlement  in 
America  was  the  fulfillment  of  their  fondest  dreams, 
and  their  advent  marks  a  new  epoch  in  the  history  of 
both  Church  and  State. 

The  Dutch  West  India  Company,  having  been  pe¬ 
titioned  by  a  company  of  Walloons  who  longed  to  settle 
in  the  New  World,  decided  to  make  permanent  settle¬ 
ment  in  New  Netherland,  and  ordered  rules  and  regula¬ 
tions  prepared  for  the  government  of  the  colony.  At 
the  morning  session  of  the  Assembly  of  Nineteen, 
March  28,  1624,  “provisional  conditions  on  which  re¬ 
spective  colonists  are  sent  out  to  New  Netherland  in 
the  service  of  the  West  India  Company  to  take  their 
abode  on  the  River  of  Prince  M  aurice  (the  Hudson) 
or  at  such  other  places  as  shall  be  assigned  to  them  by 
the  Commander  and  his  Council,"  for  the  government 
of  the  colonists  who  were  to  be  enrolled  the  following 
day,  were  read  and  adopted.  Article  II  of  these  provi¬ 
sions  reads  as  follows  : 


[41 


“Within  their  territory  they  shall  only  worship  ac¬ 
cording  to  the  true  Reformed  Religion,  as  it  is  done 
within  this  country,  (Holland),  at  present,  and  by  a 
good  Christian  life  they  shall  try  to  attract  the  Indians 
and  other  blind  persons  to  the  knowledge  of  God  and 
his  Word,  without  however  committing  any  religious 
persecution,  but  freedom  of  conscience  shall  be  left  to 
every  one,  but  if  any  one  of  them,  or  if  any  one  within 
their  territory  shall  intentionally  curse  or  speak  blasph¬ 
emy  against  the  name  of  God  and  our  Saviour  Jesus 
Christ,  he  shall  be  punished  by  the  Commander  and 
his  Council  according  to  circumstances. ’’ 

The  Colony,  consisting  of  about  thirty-two  families, 
mostly  Walloons,  sailed  in  the  ship  “New  Netherland" 
and  arrived  in  the  Hudson  River  country  in  M  ay  or 
June.  It  is  probable  that  the  “New  Netherland”  was 
accompanied  by  one  or  two  other  vessels.  The  colo¬ 
nists  were  religious  people  and  had  prayers  and  sing¬ 
ing  on  board  ship  morning  and  evening  and  at  every 
meal.  The  Classis  of  Amsterdam  provided  them  with 
a  “Comforter  of  the  Sick”  or  lay  chaplain,  in  the  person 
of  Jansen  Krol.  Tradition  has  it  that  four  couples 
were  married  on  shipboard.  Sarah  Rapalje,  who  was 
born  in  1625,  is  said  to  have  been  the  first  white  girl 
born  in  the  colony. 

Upon  their  arrival  in  New  Netherland,  some  were 
sent  to  the  Delaware  River,  some  to  the  Connecticut 


SARAH  RAPALJE'S  CRADLE 
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River,  some  were  left  on  Manhattan  Island,  but  the 
majority  were  taken  up  the  Hudson  and  settled  at 
Fort  Orange.  Krol  went  along  to  Fort  Orange,  where 
he  conducted  services  daily.  This  may  be  regarded 
as  the  beginning  of  the  Reformed  Church  in  America. 

"Walloon”  is  the  name  applied  to  the  people 
who  inhabit  the  French  departments  of  Nord,  Aisne, 
Ardenne,  and  Calais,  and  the  Belgian  provinces  of 
Hainaut,  Namur,  Liege,  Brabant,  and  Luxemburg. 
They  claim  to  be  the  “Belgae”  of  Caesar.  They  dif¬ 
fer  from  their  French  neighbors  on  the  south.  Hence 
they  were  called  "Walloons”  which  means,  strangers. 
When  they  came  to  Holland  as  exiles  they  were  strang¬ 
ers,  or  pilgrims,  in  a  double  sense.  The  Dutch  West 
India  Company  was  first  planned  and  proposed  by 
Usselinx,  an  exile  from  Antwerp,  and  in  its  ships  hun¬ 
dreds  of  Walloons,  Huguenots,  and  Dutch  went  out 
as  emigrants  to  South  Africa  and  North  and  South 
America. 

In  1609,  the  year  that  Henry  Hudson  discovered 
New  Netherland,  the  '  Pilgrim  Fathers”  driven  out 
from  England,  reached  Leyden,  where  they  came  in 
contact  with  Jesse  de  Forest  s  colony  of  Walloons,  who 
desired  to  emigrate  to  Virginia,  but  failing  in  this, 
many  of  them  finally  settled  in  New  Netherland.  In 
Leyden  there  were  thus  two  kinds  of  "Pilgrims”  hold¬ 
ing  the  same  faith. 

Other  sh  ips  soon  followed  the  "New  Netherland”  and 
in  1626  came  the  governor  Peter  Minuit,  who  bought 
the  island  of  Manhattan  from  the  Indians.  His  secre¬ 
tary  was  Isaac  de  Rasieres ;  both  were  Walloons.  The 
new  province  of  the  Dutch  Republic  was  named  "Terra 
Nova  Belgica,”  or  New  Netherland.  One  of  the  first 
things  de  Rasieres  did  was  to  send  a  friendly  letter  of 
greeting  to  their  old  friends  and  neighbors  from  Ley¬ 
den,  now  at  Plymouth,  Mass. 

[6] 


Until  1579,  the  seventeen  prov¬ 
inces  of  the  Netherlands,  where 
Hollanders  and  Belgians  now  live, 
were  one  country.  In  the  north¬ 
ern  provinces,  the  people  spoke 
Flemish,  or  Dutch ;  in  the  south¬ 
ern,  their  language  was  French. 
In  their  religion,  many  were  Re¬ 
formed,  or  Huguenot.  They  took 
their  forms  of  worship  and  belief 
out  of  the  Bible  and  organized  their  churches  on  the 
model  which  they  found  in  the  New  Testament.  In 
1567  the  King  of  Spain  sent  an  army  to  invade  and 
desolate  the  country.  He  was  determined  that  all 
people  must  think  alike  in  religion  and  if  they  did  not 
believe  as  he  did  they  should  be  burnt  alive.  Unable 
to  defend  themselves,  the  Protestant  people  of  the 
southern  or  Belgic  Netherlands  fled  by  the  thousands, 
into  Holland,  England  and  Germany. 

The  exiles  thus  scattered  abroad  were  gathered 
together  into  churches.  The  Flemings  joined  the 
Dutch  Reformed  Churches,  for  they  used  the  same 
speech  as  was  employed  by  those  congregations.  The 
Walloons,  who  spoke  French,  had  as  many  as  sixty- 
eight  churches  m  Holland,  nearly  as  many  in  Eng¬ 
land,  and  many  more  in  Germany.  They  had  several 
churches  in  Sweden,  to  which  some  of  them  had  fled. 
Theirs  was  then  “The  Church 
under  the  Cross,”  as  shown  in  the 
motto  of  the  old  seal  reproduced 
above.  Their  symbols  were  “The 
Lily  Among  Thorns,’  (embodied  in 
the  seal  at  the  right)  ;  and  “The 
Burning  Bush,” — “burning,  but  not 
consumed.”  This  last  will  be 
found,  among  other  Huguenot 
seals,  at  the  end  of  this  little  sum¬ 
mary. 


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WILLIAM  THE  SILENT 


THE  COAT  OF  ARMS  OF  WILLIAM  THE  SILENT 


This  coat  of  arms  was  adopted  as  the  emblem  of 
the  Reformed  Church  in  America.  Its  mottoes  re  ad : 
''Without  the  Lord,  All  is  Vain,’’  and  "In  Union  there 
is  strength." 


[8] 


All  forms  of  religion  were  tolerated  by  the  Dutch. 
In  1577,  William  the  Silent,  whom  the  people  called 
the  Father  of  his  Country,  forbade  the  persecution  of 
anyone  because  of  his  opinions,  so  long  as  he  was  a 
good  citizen  and  obeyed  the  laws.  The  Pilgrims,  who 
were  cast  out  from  England,  the  Walloons  and  Flem¬ 
ings,  who  were  driven  out  of  the  Belgic  Netherlands 
by  the  Spaniards,  Huguenot  fugitives  from  France, 
exiles  from  Ireland  and  Italy,  many  of  the  Puritan 
leaders,  the  founders  of  Massachusetts,  Rhode  Island 
and  Connecticut,  received  shelter  in  Holland.  She  was 
then  the  one  bright  spot  in  Europe.  No  other  country 
was  then  so  free  as  the  Netherlands,  nor  any  people 
so  devoted  to  their  country.  As  our  Benjamin  Franklin: 
declared :  “In  love  of  liberty  and  bravery  in  defense: 
of  it,  she  (the  Dutch  Republic)  has  been  our  great 
example.”  There,  in  a  land  full  of  modern  ideas,  these 
exiles  came  in  contact  with  the  most  advanced  po¬ 
litical,  social,  military,  and  legal  science.  They  in  turn 
enriched  their  benefactor  with  the  arts,  industries  and 
trades  of  their  native  countries.  It  was  by  the  Hugue¬ 
not  gate  that  the  reform  movement  entered  Holland. 
It  was  in  Calvinism  that  Holland  found  herself  and 
became  great. 

The  first  colony  of  Walloons  was  followed  by  thou¬ 
sands  of  Dutch  people.  No  one  city  in  Europe  fur¬ 
nished  so  many  lines  of  emigrants,  Walloon,  Flemish, 
Dutch  and  English,  as  did  Leyden.  In  New  Nether- 
land,  the  dominies  or  ministers,  preached  in  French  as 
well  as  in  Dutch  until  about  1690. 

As  in  the  case  of  the  Pilgrims,  numbering  as  they 
did  only  a  few  hundreds,  whose  story  from  1690  to 
1850  was  lost  (largely  because  the  Puritans  came  in 
by  the  thousands),  so  also  with  the  Walloons.  The 
French  Huguenots,  after  1690,  came  by  tens  of  thou¬ 
sands,  and  most  people  forgot  about  the  Walloons  who 
established  the  first  homes  in  the  Middle  States. 


[9] 


Yet  besides  the  Walloons  and  Dutch  who  kept 
coming  to  the  Middle  colonies,  there  were  Christian 
people  likewise  holding  the  Reformed  faith  driven  out 
of  France,  who  came  to  America.  These,  whether 
Belgic  or  French,  were  called  Huguenots.  They  settled 
m  Massachusetts,  Connecticut,  New  York,  New  Jersey 
and  Pennsylvania.  To  Virginia  and  South  Carolina 
they  came  by  the  hundreds.  In  nearly  every  one  of 
the  thirteen  colonies  represented  in  the  stripes  of  our 
flag  they  settled.  The  Tercentenary  celebration  will 
therefore  be  national,  with  special  celebrations  in  the 
more  distinctive  Huguenot  and  Dutch  centers. 


SEAL  OF  JOHN  CALVIN  SEAL  OF  THE  FIRST 

SYNOD  OF  THE  REFORMED 
CHURCH  IN  FRANCE 


SEAL  OF  THE 
PROTESTANT 
HISTORICAL  SOCIETY 


[  101 


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PLANS  FOR  THE  TERCENTENARY 


N  planning  for  the  Tercentenary  Celebration 
of  the  landing  of  the  first  Huguenots  in  this 
country,  the  aim  was  to  keep  it  national  in 
scope  and  religious  in  character,  but  to  co¬ 
operate  with  the  various  local  committees  in  arrang¬ 
ing  for  the  civic  celebrations, — pageants,  parades,  etc. 
It  will  be  the  duty  and  pleasure  of  this  Commission 
to  furnish  historical  material  for  such  events,  as  well 
as  for  lectures  on  the  historic  significance  of  the 
Tercentenary.  The  Commission  will  undertake  this 
work  with  the  cooperation  of  the  Huguenot,  and  other 
national,  historical,  and  patriotic  societies. 

The  distinctively  religious  aspect  of  the  Tercen¬ 
tenary  will  be  observed  by  “Huguenot- Walloon  Ter¬ 
centenary  Sunday,”  April  27th,  1924,  which  is  to  be 
set  aside  by  the  Churches  of  America  as  a  memorial 
Sunday  with  special  observances  appropriate  to  the 
occasion.  The  constituent  bodies  of  the  Federal  Coun¬ 
cil  of  the  Churches  of  Christ  in  America  are  to  be 
invited  to  arrange  for  these  special  services. 

A  great  Huguenot  Congress  is  to  be  held  in  New 
York,  in  1924,  which  will  bring  together  representa¬ 
tives  of  Huguenot  Societies  from  various  parts  of  the 
country. 

One  of  the  local  events  will  be  the  dedication  of  the 
Huguenot  Memorial  Church  at  Huguenot  Park  on 
Staten  Island,  New  York. 

A  bill  has  been  presented  in  Congress  for  the  strik¬ 
ing  of  a  Huguenot-Walloon  commemorative  half  dollar, 
and  it  is  further  anticipated  that  a  memorial  postage 
stamp  will  also  be  issued. 

A  Huguenot  Memorial  Volume  is  being  prepared. 

Other  features  will  of  course  be  added  as  the  prep¬ 
arations  progress,  and  the  details  will  be  carefully 

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worked  out.  Not  everything  is  to  be  left  to  1924,  how¬ 
ever.  In  1923,  the  Commission  will  conduct  a  '  Hugue¬ 
not  Pilgrimage”  to  Europe.  A  full  description  of  this 
project  may  be  found  on  pages  21-36  of  this  pamphlet. 

The  greatest  interest  has  been  aroused  in  Holland, 
Belgium,  and  France,  by  the  announcement  of  the 
coming  celebration.  Committees  of  religious,  national 
and  historical  bodies  are  being  formed,  and  the 
national  and  civic  authorities  are  preparing  to  co¬ 
operate  fully  in  making  this  Tercentenary  a  noteworthy 
one  in  Europe  as  well  as  over  here.  The  Commission 
has  been  honored  in  having  as  its  Honorary  Chair¬ 
men  the  Chief  Executive  of  each  of  the  four  nations 
involved :  President  Harding  of  the  United  States, 
Queen  Wilhelmina  of  Holland,  King  Albert  of  Belgium, 
and  President  Millerand,  of  France,  the  invitations 
having  been  conveyed  by  a  personal  visit  on  the  part 
of  the  Chairman  of  the  Executive  Committee. 


ST.  PETER'S  CHURCH,  ZURICH 


WARREN  G.  HARDING 

President  of  the  United  States 


[  141 


THE  WHITE  HOUSE 

WA8HINOTON 


&eoo»bcr  j,  1922. 


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ly  dear  loot  or  otoucit : 

It  Is  with  much  gratif icatlor  that  I  hare  r  - 
ooivod  your  notification  regarding  the  forthcoming 
tercentenary  celebration  of  the  settling  of  the 
huguenot -Walloon  in  imerioa,  and  of  my  own  selection 
as  honorary  president  of  the  cccaaicsion  which  is  ar~ 
ran>  ing  for  the  observance.  I  have  the  greater 
pleasure  in  accepting  this  mo*t  honorable  position, 
because  of  ay  deep  appreciation  of  the  contribution 
of  this  splendid  people  to  the  fcttn&ing,  the  develop¬ 
ment  and  the  present  estate  of  our  common  country. 

It  was  the  fortune  of  our  America  to  have  b landed  in 
its  beginnings  a  number  of  the  finest  stocks  of  the 
old  world;  as  it  has  also  boor*  -our  good  fortune  to 
have  afforded  op  ortunity  and  inspiration  for  the 
best  services  which  they  were  able  to  render  in  csa'.t- 
ing  the  .j&tlon.  It  is  good  for  us  to  be*  reminded 
of  so  great  a  debt  to  those  "ho  laid  th  foundations 
of  our  hetlon,  and  we  cannot  too  much  honor  them  on 
occasions  of  this  sort.  1  extend  to  you  my  sincere at 
t;ood  wishes  for  the  notable  success  of  the  celebration 
which  you  and  your  associates  are  planning. 

* 


5 st  sincerely 

, 

Kev .  loin  Baer  dtoudt , 

105  ..ast  224  -tr  at, 

1,  «r  forte  City 


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[15] 


The  Q  ueen's  Message 
To  Dr.  Macfarland: 

Receive  my  thanks  for  the  attention  you  have  paid  me,  in  pre¬ 
senting  me  personally  with  the  message  of  the  Huguenot-Walloon 
Commission. 

Your  visit  affords  me  the  opportunity  of  testifying  to  the  great 
interest  I  take  in  the  commemorative  celebration  of  the  settlement  of 
the  Walloons  in  your  country. 

I  thank  you  for  the  words  you  spoke  regarding  the  indissoluble 
links  which  unite  my  country  and  the  United  States, — a  unity  rooted 
in  the  principles  of  faith  and  liberty  which  the  settlers  brought  with 
them  from  the  Netherlands. 

For  these  and  many  other  reasons  it  would  be  of  great  interest 
to  me  to  find,  some  day,  the  opportunity  of  visiting  your  country. 

Accept  my  very  best  wishes  for  the  success  of  the  commemorative 
festivities  and  for  the  Huguenot-Walloon  Commission  especially. 

[16] 


From  the  Letter  of  Comte  d’Arschot,  Chief  of  the 
Royal  Belgian  Cabinet : 

Rev.  Dr.  Macfarland: 

In  accordance  with  orders  from  the  King,  I  have  the  honor  of  con¬ 
firming  to  you  in  writing  what  His  Majesty  said  to  you  personally. 

My  August  Sovereign  was  charmed  to  accept  the  Honorary  Pres¬ 
idency  of  the  Commission  which  has  been  organized  since  last  year  by 
the  Federal  Council  of  the  Churches  of  Christ  in  America  in  order  to 
commemorate  the  Huguenot-Walloon  Tercentenary. 

The  King  was  happy  to  give  through  you,  a  new  testimony  of  the 
great  sympathy  which  unites  the  Belgian  people  to  the  great  American 

natl0n*  Very  cordially  yours,  Cte.  D’ARSCHOT. 

[17] 


THE  PRESIDENT  OF  THE  FRENCH  REPUBLIC 


The  Letter  of  Ambassador  Jusserand 

Dear  Sir: 

Referring  to  previous  correspondence,  I  beg  to  say  that  I  have 
just  received  an  answer  to  the  cable  I  had  sent  to  my  Government  and 
I  am  glad  to  inform  you  that  President  Millerand  accepts  with  great 
pleasure  the  patronage  of  the  Huguenot-Walloon  Tercentenary  com¬ 
memoration. 

Believe  me, 

Sincerely  yours, 

Washington,  December  16,  1922. 

1  181 


Jusserand. 


The  chairman  of  the 
Commission  is  Robert 
W.  de  Forest,  Vice-Pres¬ 
ident  of  the  American 
Red  Cross.  He  is  a  di¬ 
rect  descendant  of  the 
indomitable  Jesse  de 
Forest,  who  was  born  at 
Avesnes,  France,  about 
1576.  Jesse  and  his 
Protestant  companions 
sought  refuge  at  Leyden 
where  in  1615  his  name 
appears  in  the  register  of 
the  Walloon  congrega¬ 
tion.  On  July  21,  1621, 
Jesse  de  Forest  pre¬ 
sented  a  petition  to  the 
British  Ambassador  at 
The  Hague,  signed  by 
fift  y-six  men,  mostly  heads  of  families,  the  whole  num¬ 
ber  comprising  two  hundred  and  twenty-seven  men, 
women  and  children,  “as  well  Walloons  as  French,  all 
of  the  reformed  religion,”  who  desired  to  settle  in  Vir¬ 
ginia  under  certain  conditions  set  forth  in  the  petition. 

When  the  Virginia  company  would  not  accept  the  con¬ 
ditions  of  the  petition,  he  promptly  took  the  appeal  to  the 
States  of  Holland  and  West  Friesland,  who  accepted  his 
request  and  authorized  him  “to  enroll  for  the  colonies 
all  the  families  having  the  qualification  .  .  .  and  to 

transport  the  same  to  the  West  Indies.”  It  is  to  be 
remembered  that  the  term  West  India  was  applied  to 
the  whole  Western  Continent. 

On  J  uly  1,  1623,  Jesse  de  Forest  with  a  number  of 
heads  of  families  sailed  for  the  Wild  Coast  to  find  ad¬ 
vantageous  sites  for  settlements.  On  this  expedition  he 
died.  The  following  year,  1624,  the  Colony,  consisting 
mostly  of  Walloons,  whose  settlement  in  America  we  are 
commemorating,  arrived  in  New  Netherland. 


[  19] 


No  list  of  members  of  these  thirty  families,  ''mostly 
Walloons,'1  has  been  preserved.  The  same  is  true  with 
regard  to  the  records  of  New  Amsterdam  for  the  first 
fifteen  years  of  its  existence,  but  after  these  fifteen 
silent  years  we  find  mentioned  in  these  records  many 
surnames  which  were  also  among  the  signatures  on 
Jesse  s  round  robin  of  1621,  his  first  list  of  colonists. 
Besides  the  names  of  De  Forest  and  La  Montagne,  we 
find  the  following :  Cornille,  Campion,  Catoir,  Damont, 
de  Carpentier,  De  Croy,  De  Crenne,  Du  Four,  De  la  Mot, 
Du  Pon,  De  Trou,  Gaspar,  Ghiselin,  Gille,  Lambert,  Le 
Roy,  Le  Rou,  Maton,  Maryin. 


COOPERATING  ORGANIZATIONS 

Partial  list  of  cooperating  societies  in  addition  to  those  represented 
in  the  Federal  Council  of  the  Churches  of  Christ  in  America: 

Huguenot  Society  of  America. 

Huguenot  Society  of  South  Carolina. 

Huguenot  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

Huguenot  Society  of  New  Jersey. 

Historical  Society  of  the  Reformed  Church. 

Holland  Society  of  New  York. 

Society  of  the  Daughters  of  the  Holland  Dames. 

St.  Nicholas  Society. 

Historical  Society  of  Pennsylvania. 

Historical  Society  of  Staten  Island. 

Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution. 

Society  of  Colonial  Wars  in  the  State  of  New  York. 
American  Scenic  and  Historic  Site  Preservation  Society. 

N.  Y.  State  Historical  Association. 

(Other  organizations  are  expected  to  unite  with  the  Commission;  the 
list  will  be  brought  up  to  date  in  a  later  edition) 

EUROPEAN  ORGANIZATIONS 

Societe  de  L’Histoire  du  Protestantisme  Frangais. 

Societe  d’Histoire  du  Protestantisme  Beige. 

The  Leyden  Pilgrim  Society. 

Huguenot  Society  of  London. 

Cooperative  committees  appointed  by  the  Federation  Protestante 
de  France,  the  Waldensian  Synod,  the  Swiss  Protestant  Federation, 
etc. 


A  HUGUENOT  PILGRIMAGE 


T  was  felt  that  no  more  appropriate  way  of 
inaugurating  the  Huguenot- Walloon  Tercen¬ 
tenary  could  be  devised  than  by  a  visit  paid 
to  the  lands  from  whence  came  the  Hugue- 
Walloon  refugees  to  found  their  homes  in  a 
new  world.  Hence  it  has  been  decided  to  institute,  as 
the  first  of  the  Tercentenary  events,  a  'Huguenot  Pil¬ 
grimage  to  Europe,  including  the  Huguenot  centers 
in  France,  Belgium,  Holland,  the  Rhine  country,  Switz¬ 
erland,  and  the  Waldensian  Valleys  of  Italy,  to  take 
place  in  the  summer  of  1923. 

A  “Pilgrimage”  of  this  character,  would  be  more 
than  a  mere  commemorative  pleasure  trip.  It  would 
serve  not  merely  to  encourage  and  hearten  our  brethren 
across  the  seas  (many  of  whom  represent  struggling 
minorities),  but  would  be  an  expression  of  goodwill 
which  would  help  to  strengthen  the  ties  of  interna¬ 
tional  friendship  between  these  nations  and  our  own. 

Our  friends  over  m  Europe  are  going  to  do  every¬ 
thing  in  their  power  to  give  the  American  delegation 
a  warm  welcome.  Special  services  will  be  held  m  the 
“Temples”  on  Sundays  and  on  other  suitable  occasions. 
There  will  be  an  opportunity  to  meet  with  some  of  the 
leading  personalities  in  the  European  Churches. 

Nor  is  the  interest  with  which  this  tour  is  regarded 
confined  to  purely  Huguenot  or  Walloon  circles.  Offi¬ 
cial  receptions  by  the  civic  authorities  in  the  more  im¬ 
portant  places  on  the  itinerary  will  be  part  of  the  pro¬ 
gram.  In  addition  to  this,  the  members  of  the  Pil¬ 
grimage,  it  is  expected  will  be  officially  received  in  Paris, 
Brussels,  and  The  Hague,  by  the  heads  of  these  na¬ 
tions. 

The  arrangements  for  the  tour, — hotels,  railroads, 
etc.,  have  been  turned  over  to  Dr.  H.  W.  Dunning,  of 
Boston,  who  will  be  glad  to  answer  questions  regard- 

121  ] 


ing  the  details  of  the  itinerary,  prices,  steamer  sailings 
and  accommodations  generally.  Inquiries  should  be 
addressed  to  him,  188  Rawson  Road,  Brookline,  Mass. 

The  tour  will  be  accompanied  by  Dr.  Macfarland, 
the  Chairman  of  our  Executive  Committee,  and  by  the 
Director,  Rev.  John  Baer  Stoudt. 

Dr.  Macfarl  and  will  serve  to  interpret  the  historic 
and  religious  significance  of  the  various  places  visited, 
with  which  lor  many  years  he  has  been  intimately 
familiar. 

Mr.  Stoudt  will  accompany  the  tour  as  historian. 
Important  historical  lectures  and  addresses  will  be 
delivered  by  leading  churchmen  at  points  of  interest. 

Participation  in  the  tour  will  be  limited,  and  res¬ 
ervations  should  be  made  as  soon  as  possible. 


JOHN  ROBINSON’S  CHURCH  AT  LEYDEN 


[22] 


GENERAL  OUTLINE  OF  THE  ITINERARY 


July  18,  19 
July  20,  21 

July  22,  23 
July  24,  to  29 


July  30,  31 

August  1,  2 

August  3 

August  4,  5 
August  6 
August  7,  8 

August  9 
August  10 
August  11,  12 
August  13,  14 
August  15,  16 

August  17,  18 
August  19 
August  20,  21 
August  22 
August  23, 

24,  25,  26,  27  J 
August  28 
August  29,  30, 
31 

September  1, 
2,  3,  4,  5 


Paris  ;  to  La  Rochelle 
La  Rochelle;  Bordeaux;  afternoon 
train  to  Montauban 
Montauban;  Carcassonne 
Montpellier;  Nimes  and  vicinity  with 
automobile  trips  to  Aigues  Mortes, 
Pont  du  Gard,  Avignon,  etc.,  and  a  two- 
day  trip  to  the  Cevennes  (Gorge  ol  the 
Tarn,  Le  Pont  de  Montvert,  Florae) 

To  Nice  ;  the  Grande  Corniche  by  auto¬ 
mobile  ;  Monaco 

The  famous  Route  des  Alpes  to  Barcel- 
onette ;  by  auto  to  Briancon 
At  Briancon ;  auto  trips  to  neighboring 
viewpoints 

Turin;  to  Torre  Pellice 

To  Interlaken  by  the  Loetschberg  route 

Interlaken ;  Scheidegg,  Lauterbrunnen 

and  the  Grindelwald 

The  Bernese  Oberland  to  Montreux 

Castle  of  Chillon ;  Lake  Geneva 

Geneva  ;  Gex 

Lucerne ;  night  on  the  Rigi 
Zurich;  to  Wildhausen  and  the  battle¬ 
field  of  Cappel 
Strasbourg ;  to  Worms 
Worms;  to  Frankenthal 
Verdun  and  the  Argonne 
Chateau  Thierry;  Rheims ;  to  Paris 

Paris 

Avesnes  ;  St.  Quentin ;  to  Brussels 
Brussels ;  afternoon  train  to  Am¬ 
sterdam 

Amsterdam  and  vicinity,  including 
Leyden  and  The  Hague.  Trips  plan¬ 
ned  to  correspond  with  the  Coronation 
anniversary  ceremonials.  Night 

[23  1 


ser- 


ITINERARY  (Continued) 


September  6 


vice  via  Hook  of  Holland  or  Antwerp 

to  London 

London;  Canterbury 


Week’s  Extension  in  London 

Automobile  trips  to  Windsor,  Eton, 
Stoke  Poges,  Oxford,  Stratford,  Kenil¬ 
worth  and  Warwick 

September  14  Sail  from  Liverpool  or  Glasgow,  or 

other  port  preferred 


Preliminary  Tour  of  Great  Britain 


July  1,  2 
July  3 
July  4 
July  5,  6,  7 

July  8,  9 
July  10,  11, 
12,  13,  14,  15, 
16 

July  17 


Liverpool ;  to  Furness  Abbey 
Lake  Windermere,  Grasmere 
Ambleside,  Ullswater,  Penrith 
Edinburgh;  excursion  to  the  Trossachs 
by  rail,  steamer  and  coach 
Melrose  Abbey  and  Abbotsford 
London  and  vicinity  including  motor 
trips  to  Windsor,  Eton,  Stoke  Poges, 
Oxford,  Stratford,  Kenilworth  and 
Warwick 

Paris;  join  the  main  tour  on  arrival; 
to  La  Rochelle  on  the  19th. 


THE  PROTESTANT  CHURCH  OF  VERDUN,  1918 

[24  1 


A  WORD  ABOUT  THE  PILGRIMAGE 


T  is  not  our  purpose  to  furnish  here  a  gen¬ 
eral  guidebook  to  the  localities  covered  by 
our  Pilgrimage,  especially  as  most  of  the 
places  are  well-known  centers  of  tourist 
travel,  but  a  word  or  two  about  their  special  signifi¬ 
cance  from  the  point  of  view  of  the  Tercentenary,  we 
believe  would  be  appropriate. 

Paris  is  to  be  the  gathering  place  of  our  "  Pilgrims 
and  while  ample  provision  has  been  made  for  the  party 
to  see  its  world-famous  churches,  monuments,  and 
museums,  an  opportunity  will  also  be  given  to  meet 
with  the  French  Protestant  Federation,  to  visit  their 
new  building  on  the  Rue  de  Clichy,  and  to  see  a  num¬ 
ber  of  landmarks  well-known  to  Huguenot  history 
which  the  ordinary  tourist  is  apt  to  overlook.  For 
instance:  the  Tower  of  St.  Jacques,  the  Church  of  the 
Oratoire,  the  Library-Museum  of  the  Historical  Society 
of  French  Protestantism,  the  old  Abbey-Church  of  St. 
Germain-des-Pres,  the  Protestant  Foyers,  the  social 
work  of  the  McAll  Mission,  and  the  offices  of  the 
Central  Evangelical  Society. 

Paris  and  its  vicinity  was  the  cradle  of  the  French 
Reformation.  The  first  Synod  of  the  Reformed  Church 
met  at  Paris  in  1559.  Prof.  James  Lefevre,  who  is 
regarded  by  many  as  the  father  of  the  Reformation, 
taught  the  Evangelical  doctrines  here  as  early  as  1512. 
In  1529  Bishop  Briconnet  of 
Meaux  sent  the  translation  of  the 
Bible  which  was  made  by  Lefevre 
and  Farel,  to  Queen  Margaret  of 
Navarre.  Farel,  who  began  the 
work  of  reform  in  Geneva,  and 
who  induced  Jean  Calvin  to  settle 
in  that  city,  was  one  of  the  pupils 
of  Lefevre. 


Prof.  James  Lefevre 


[25] 


THE  HARBOR  OF  LA  ROCHELLE 


The  first  distinctively  Huguenot  city  on  the  Tour 
is  La  Rochelle,  the  greatest  and  most  famous  Hugue¬ 
not  stronghold,  whose  heroic  defense  and  final  cap¬ 
itulation  makes  one  of  the  saddest,  and  at  the  same 
time  one  of  the  proudest  chapters  in  the  history  of 
the  Huguenots.  Bordeaux,  also,  which  is  on  the  route 
to  Montauban,  sheltered  many  adherents  of  the  Re¬ 
formed  faith ;  it  was  one  of  the  chief  supporters  of  the 
Fronde. 

With  its  arrival  at  Montauban,  the  Pilgrimage 
approaches  the  heart  of  the  Huguenot  region  of  France. 
Montauban  seems  to  have  been  a  center  and  bulwark 
of  independent  thought  even  m  very  early  days,  for  it 
was  one  of  the  storm  centers  in  the  crusade  against 
the  Albigenses.  In  1560,  swept  along  by  the  fire  of 
Jean  Calvin  s  eloquence,  its  Bishop,  magistrates,  and 
over  three-quarters  of  its  population  adopted  the  new 
faith.  They  formed  an  independent  republic,  and  it 
was  not  until  La  Rochelle  had  fallen  that  they  finally 
made  their  submission  to  Louis  XIII.  It  was  noted 
for  its  strong  Protestant  Theological  Faculty.  The 
little  city  itself  is  picturesquely  situated  and  full  of  in¬ 
terest  to  the  sightseer. 

Carcassonne,  the  next  stop  on  the  itinerary,  is  a 
most  interesting  survival  of  the  old  mediaeval  fortified 
town.  Its  ramparts  and  towers  are  in  a  splendid  state 

[261 


of  preservation,  and  for  completeness  and  strength  are 
unique  in  Europe.  Once  an  Albigensian  refuge,  it 
later  became  a  Huguenot  center  of  considerable  im¬ 
portance. 

The  charming  old  university  town  of  Montpellier 
almost  repeats  the  history  of  Montauban.  Captured 
by  the  Huguenots  in  1567,  it  stood  a  siege  of  eight 
months,  under  the  gallant  leadership  of  its  Due  de 
Rohan,  only  to  succumb  in  the  end.  Montpellier  is 
now  the  seat  of  the  Protestant  Theological  Faculty. 

Montauban,  Carcassonne,  and  Montpellier  are  a 
good  preparation  for  the  visit  to  Nimes,  which  follows, 
and  yet,  chronologically,  Nimes  should  come  first,  be¬ 
cause  there  preached  Jean  Calvin,  and  from  this  city 
the  doctrine  of  the  Reformed  faith  spread  like  wild¬ 
fire  throughout  all  that  region  of  France.  The  city  was 
three-quarters  Huguenot  at  the  time  of  the  revocation 
of  the  Edict  of  Nantes,  and  suffered  disastrously  in 
the  persecutions  which  followed. 

Beautifully  situated  in  a  fertile  region,  Nimes  was 
already  a  prosperous  town  under  the  Romans.  In¬ 
numerable  rums,  some  of  them  remarkably  well  pre¬ 
served  (as  for  instance  the  famous  amphitheatre) 
testify  to  its  importance  then. 

From  Nimes  trips  are  to  be  made  to  some  of 
the  other  famous  Huguenot  towns  : — Aigues  Mortes, 
which  contains  the  Tower  of  Constance,  the  dreaded 
dungeon  in  which  so  many  sufferers  languished  for 


THE  TOWER  OF  CONSTANCE 
[27  1 


years  because  of  their  faith.  The  rugged  old  pile,  still 
measurably  intact,  in  a  way  is  symbolic  at  once  of  the 
persecution  they  endured  and  their  own  indomitable 
courage.  From  Aigues  Mortes,  Louis  IX  started  out 
on  the  seventh  and  eighth  crusades.  Pont  du  Gard 
and  Avignon  are  both  within  easy  access  of  Nimes  ;  the 
former  was  a  noted  rallying  place  of  the  Camisards, 
the  latter  famous  as  the  seat  of  the  Popes  during  their 
exile.  Their  old  fortress  palace  on  the  heights  above 
the  town  attracts  many  visitors,  as  do  also  the  ram¬ 
parts  with  their  thirty-nine  massive  towers,  built  to 
withstand  barbarians  and  Saracens.  Its  commanding 
position  on  the  banks  of  the  Rhone  made  Avignon  a 
formidable  military  position. 

Two  days  are  to  be  devoted  to  the  Cevennes,  the 
picturesque  mountain  country  where  the  Huguenot 
forces,  driven  from  their  towns,  hounded  and  pursued, 
found  ready  refuge  in  the  rugged  forests,  the  hidden 
gorges  and  narrow  valleys,  where  armies  could  not 
penetrate  without  risk  of  ambush.  Here  in  the  open 
air,  they  worshipped  as  conscience  taught  them,  and 
today,  religious  liberty  long  since  established  in  their 
land,  the  descendants  of  those  refugees  still  gather  on 
special  memorial  days  around  the  old  open  air  pulpit 
to  hear  the  Gospel  read  from  the  Bible  of  Roland,  their 
leader  and  martyr.  Some  points  of  special  interest  in 
this  picturesque  country  are  the  Gorge  of  the  Tarn 


PREACHING  IN  THE  “DESERT” 

(The  Chairman  of  our  Executive  Committee  in  the  Cevennes,  1918) 

[28] 


River  (a  glorious  canyon  about  thirty-seven  miles  long). 
Florae,  the  scene  of  the  ‘  Bloody  Assizes,”  Pont  de 
Montvert,  where  the  revolt  of  the  Camisards  broke 
out,  the  two  famous  Huguenot  “Temples’  ’  of  St.  J  ean 
du  G  ard  and  Anduze,  and  above  all,  the  “Huguenot 
Desert,”  the  great  open-air  meeting  place  at  the  time 
of  the  persecutions.  Here  is  the  “Musee  du  Desert 
where  the  relics  and  mementoes  of  the  terrible  strug¬ 
gles  for  liberty  of  conscience  have  been  gathered  to¬ 
gether  into  a  notable  and  fascinating  collection,  which 
would  alone  repay  a  journey  to  this  part  of  France. 

After  a  day  of  rest  at  the  charming  watering  resort, 
Nice,  the  party  will  take  the  famous  “Grande  Corniche 
drive  to  M  onaco,  and  then,  via  the  glorious  “Route 
des  Alpes”  to  Barcelonette,  proceeding  from  there  to 
picturesque  Briancon,  by  auto.  This  delightful  moun¬ 
tain  town  (it  has  an  altitude  of  nearly  4500  feet)  is 
located  on  the  junction  of  the  Durance  and  Guisane 
rivers;  in  days  gone  by  it  guarded  the  Mont  Genevre 
pass,  the  gate  to  Turin.  Many  magnificent  views  may 
be  enjoyed  on  the  trips  which  will  be  taken  in  the 
vicinity. 

The  pilgrimage  now  crosses  the  boundaries  of 
France  to  enter  the  Waldensian  Valleys  of  Italy,  by 
way  of  the  busy  and  progressive  city  of  Turin.  The 
valleys  of  mountainous  Piedmont  were  to  the  harassed 
Waldensians,  the  oldest  of  all  our  Protestant  Churches, 


HOME  OF  THE  WALDENSIAN  SYNOD  AT  TORRE  PELLICE 

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what  the  Cevennes  were  to  the  Huguenots  of  France. 
From  Torre  Pellice,  the  Waldensian  capital,  the  visitor 
may  look  up  and  see  the  historic  pass  of  Angrogna,  the 
Thermopylae  of  this  heroic  little  group  that  has  "'kept 
the  light  burning”  through  centuries  of  persecution, 
and  has  fought  its  way  through  to  a  new  future  of 
greater  promise  and  a  wider  field  of  service.  Special 
attention  will  be  given  to  the  Waldensian  institutions, 
the  “Casa  Valde  se”  where  the  Synod  meets,  the  fine 
church,  the  schools,  and  the  Museum  which  is  full  of 
interesting  and  often  touching  relics  of  this  wonderful 
people.  At  Bobbio-Pelhce  (reached  by  auto)  is  the 
Monument  of  the  Martyrs,  of  whom  the  Valleys  have 
had  only  too  many  to  record. 


FAREL’S  CALL  TO  CALVIN 


The  entry  into  Switzerland  will  be  made  by  way  of 
the  Loetschberg,  and  the  next  few  days  will  be  spent 
amid  the  beautiful  Alpine  scenery  of  Interlaken  and  its 
environs,  the  Bernese  Oberland,  Montreux  and  Lake 
Geneva.  A  visit  will  be  paid  to  the  Castle  of  Chillon, 
familiar  to  every  lover  of  Byron,  and  then  the  pilgrimage 
will  make  a  halt  in  Geneva,  the  Protestant  capital  of 
Switzerland,  the  scene  of  Calvin  s  ministry,  and  where 
he  lies  buried,  under  a  modest  slab  of  stone,  bearing 
only  the  initials  :  “J.  C.” 


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GENEVA 


Ulrich  Zwingli 


After  a  day  at  beautiful  Lucerne,  the  party  will 
visit  Zurich,  birthplace  of  Reformed  and  Presbyterian 
Churches,  and  the  great  asylum  for  Protestant  refugees 
from  Italy  and  France.  Here  Ulrich  Zwingli  preached 
from  1519  until  his  death  on  the  disastrous  battlefield 
of  Cappel,  to  which  a  visit  will  be  paid,  as  also  to  Wild- 
hausen,  far  up  on  the  Alpine  heights  overlooking  Zurich 
where  the  great  reformer  was  born. 

Strasbourg  in  Alsace  is  the  next  goal.  Its  justly 
famous  University  has  a  notable  Protestant  faculty,  and 
from  this  historic  and  picturesque  old  city  with  its 
magnificent  cathedral  and  its  many  stirring  memories 
(the  Marseillaise  was  written  here),  the  pilgrimage 
comes  to  yet  another  outstanding  Protestant  center : 
the  city  of  Worms,  sacred  to  Luther,  since  there  he 
faced  the  Diet  before  which  he  was  tried  in  1521,  and 
made  his  famous  declaration  of  faith.  Worms  itself  is 
quaint  and  interesting,  with  charming  environs.  A  halt 
will  be  made  at  Frankenthal,  a 
prettily  situated  fortress-town,  the 
haven  of  refuge  for  large  numbers 
of  Protestants  from  the  Belgic 
Netherlands  and  one  of  the  few 
Palatinate  towns  not  destroyed  in 
the  Thirty  Years’  War. 

The  route  leads  back  to  France 
now,  to  the  battlefields  of  Verdun, 
the  Argonne,  Chateau  Thierry,  and 

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to  war-stricken  R  h  e  1  m  s  . 
Belleau  Wood  is  sacred 
ground  for  Americans,  and 
the  American  cemetery  there 
will  be  visited,  as  will  be  the 
other  American  cemeteries 
in  the  battle  region.  Good 
auto  service  is  available,  and 
a  large  amount  of  territory 
can  be  covered  in  a  relative¬ 
ly  short  time. 

On  the  way  to  Belgium, 
following  our  stay  m  Paris, 
the  battlefields  around  St. 
Quentin  will  be  reached. 
Here  was  the  Hmdenburg 
Line  in  1918.  Here,  in  1554, 
Coligny  with  his  brave  little 
army  withstood  the  Span¬ 
iards  and  prevented  them 
from  reaching  Pans,  just  as 
in  the  recent  war  the  enemy  s 
STATUE  OF  COLIGNY  forces  were  again  kept  back 
AT  PARIS  from  the  threatened  capital 

by  the  determined  resistance 
they  met  at  this  point.  At  St.  Quentin,  too,  during  his 
imprisonment  there,  Coligny  experienced  his  great  spir¬ 
itual  rebirth  which  destined  him  to  become  a  leader  of 


AMERICAN  CEMETERY  AT  BELLEAU  WOOD 

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the  Huguenot  cause.  A  visit  will  be  paid  to  the  Prot¬ 
estant  Church  of  St.  Quentin,  reconstructed  (after  hav¬ 
ing  been  completely  destroyed  by  the  bombardment), 
by  the  aid  of  contributions  from  American  Christians. 
Avesnes,  the  native  town  of  Jesse  de  Forest,  under 
whose  leadership  the  first  Walloon  colony  was  organ¬ 
ized,  will  be  visited  likewise.  The  American  delegation 


AVESNES 

The  Little  Town  where  Jesse  de  Forest  was  born 


will  take  part  m  the  dedicatory  ceremonies  attending 
the  unveiling  of  the  monument  which  is  being  erected  to 
Jesse  de  Forest  by  the  municipality  of  Avesnes.  A 
street  has  already  been  named  after  him.  The  little 
town  felt  the  full  brunt  of  the  War: — the  last  German 
offensive  was  started  from  here. 


THE  SIGNATURE  OF  JESSE  DE  FOREST 
[33] 


CONGRESS  COLUMN,  BRUSSELS 

place  of  Belgium’s  “Un¬ 
known  Hero.’’  To  the  left 
is  a  photograph  of  the  recon¬ 
struction  operations  on  the 
world-famous  Hotel  de  Ville 
at  Louvain,  the  “Martyr 
City.’’  This  is  just  a  brief 
run  from  Brussels. 

The  entire  last  week  is 
set  aside  for  Holland,  where 
the  program  will  be  planned 
to  fit  into  the  celebrations 
and  festivities  incident  to 
the  twenty-fifth  anniversary 
of  the  coronation  of  Queen 
Wilhelmina.  Holland,  very 


Two  days  are  given  to 
Brussels,  and  again,  as  in 
Paris,  m  addition  to  see¬ 
ing  what  every  tourist  is 
shown,  the  members  of 
the  Huguenot  Tour  will 
have  an  opportunity  of 
observing  the  Protestant 
work  being  carried  on 
here,  and  more  particu¬ 
larly  around  the  mining 
section  near  Mons.  It 
goes  without  saying  that 
the  party  will  receive  a 
warm  welcome  from  the 
Belgian  Protestants. 

The  illustration  at  the 
top  shows  the  lofty  and 
handsome  Congress  Col¬ 
umn  at  Brussels,  which  is 
now  the  hallowed  burial 


LOUVAIN 


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naturally,  has  an  unusually  strong  attraction  lor  us,  as 
the  great  haven  of  refuge  for  all  those  oppressed  for 
conscience'  sake,  and  forms  a  fitting  culmination  for  the 
entire  Pilgrimage.  The  Leyden  Pilgrim  Fathers’  Society 
has  already  extended  a  cordial  invitation  to  the  mem¬ 
bers  of  the  Tour  to  be  its  guests  at  a  special  meeting 
which  will  be  held  on  September  first  or  second,  in  honor 
of  the  Anniversary.  Many  of  our  readers  will  no  doubt 
recall  that  the  Society  took  a  notable  part  in  the  May¬ 
flower  Tercentenary,  three  years  ago. 


HISTORIC  LANDMARK  IN  AMSTERDAM 


[35] 


This  practically  com¬ 
pletes  the  tour,  except  lor 
a  brief  visit  to  London, 
giving  a  chance  to  visit 
the  old  Huguenot  congre¬ 
gation  at  nearby  Canter¬ 
bury,  but  lor  those  who 
prefer  it,  a  week’s  exten¬ 
sion  has  been  planned, 
allowing  several  days  in 
London,  and  a  number  ol 
delightful  trips  to  Wind¬ 
sor,  Eton,  Oxford,  Strat¬ 
ford,  and  other  places  of 
note  within  motoring  dis¬ 
tance  of  the  capital. 

Those  who  desire  a 
longer  stay  in  Great 
Britain  can  take  advan¬ 
tage  of  the  ’Preliminary  Tour,’’  which  embraces  the 
Lake  Region,  the  picturesque  Trossachs,  Scotland,  the 
home  of  John  Knox,  Melrose  Abbey  and  Abbotsford, 
ending  with  London  and  its  neighboring  towns  in  time 
to  join  the  main  tour  in  Paris  on  July  18th. 


JOHN  KNOX  AND  MARY 
QUEEN  OF  SCOTS 


CANTERBURY  CATHEDRAL 
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